Columbus
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My favorite moment: Jin (John Cho, making us think: hey, he's a grown-up [just checked: he's FORTY-FIVE]) finds his dying father's floppy hat in a closet and just holds it, staring at it as if it's Yorick's skull. My favorite repeated visual motif: hallways, alleyways, byways, bridgeways; standing still is going somewhere, but somewhere predetermined and enclosed.
This is everything we used to love about independent film, back when that phrase meant something: quiet, unhurried, painfully human, rewardingly inconclusive. And educational: I won't ask whether you knew Columbus, Indiana, is an architectural mecca; did you even know there is a Columbus, Indiana?
Feature debut by writer/director Kogonada, known (if at all) for his quirky shorts. More, please.
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https://vimeo.com/55956937
https://www.artspaper.org/articles/2017/9/22/friday-flicks-columbus
The first link is definitely more consequential than the second. Passageways: they divide the frame, they create depth, they highlight movement within a carefully composed composition. My favorite was the recurring shot of the alley in downtown Columbus. We never see any of the main characters there. Sometimes we see a person on a bench reading. Sometimes a tour group walking from right to left or left to right in the background. Just a beautiful image of a specific place, of time passing. I dig it. More please, indeed.
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